Cultivating Place
Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we cultivate, how they nourish our bodies, and feed our spirits. Take a listen.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 500
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Cultivating Place: Qayyum Johnson, Farm Manager Green Gulch Farm Zen Center
As we enter a traditional two-month period marked by celebrations of giving thanks, this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Qayyum Johnson, farm manager of Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Arlington National Cemetery, Memorial Gardens and Arboretum
This week on Cultivating Place, we speak with Steve Van Hoven Chief Arborist and Horticulture Supervisor of Arlington National Cemetery, Memorial Gardens and Arboretum. This historic landscaped natio…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Garden History: Blithewold And The Country Place Era Garden
Gardens can be important repositories for cultural and environmental history. From the plants included to materials used — you can read a great deal about time and place in any garden. This might be …
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: The Garden Conservancy
Gardens and landscapes, gardeners and gardening are integral to our cultural literacy and sense of place and self as a nation. In 1989 Frank Cabot founded the Garden Conservancy in the United States …
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Sustainability In Prisons Project
I don't know about you, but for me the garden grounds me, at the same time that it liberates me. Being out in nature - in the garden or on the trail - opens my mind and heart, settles me down while s…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Thomas Rainer And 'Planting In A Post-Wild World'
Thomas Rainer is a “horticultural futurist fascinated by the intersection of wild plants and human culture." A landscape architect by profession and a gardener by obsession, Rainer is co-author of “P…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Ruth Bancroft And Her Epic Dry Garden
Every garden has something to teach me – truly. About plants, about people, about space and light and place. I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, CA – the…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Gardening For Sustainable Cloth And Community
Some people garden for food, some people garden for beauty, and some people garden and farm for cloth. Sandy Fisher is a weaver and fiber artist who since 1980 has literally interwoven her artistic e…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Heirloom Bulbs With Scott Kunst Of Old House Gardens
Today is the Autumnal Equinox. If gardening at its core is an activity of optimism, then planting fall bulbs is one of its most profound gestures of hope wherein you plant something that looks like n…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: With A Little Help: Fine Gardening And Fine Gardeners, A New Generation
Does simply removing your lawn bring you up to speed as a gardener? Have you noticed how when a lawn is replaced with a garden, some homeowners approach these new gardens with the same mow and blow m…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Removing Lawn, Becoming a Gardener
In the wake of the ongoing drought in the state of California, the state and many municipalities have offered incentives for homeowners and businesses to replace their thirsty lawns with native and d…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Kelly Comras, Landscape Architect, Historian, And Author
Landscape architects create outdoor spaces with intention and thought. While the effects are often unnoticed consciously, they are absorbed and experienced nonetheless — impacting us, our culture, an…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Dr. Peter Raven – Plant Biology And The Conservation Of Biodiversity
Dr. Peter Raven is one of the leading plant biologists in the world today, having begun his botanical and natural history journey falling in love with the plants and animals of Central California, th…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Sasha Duerr — Rich, Healthy Pigments From The Garden
It's late summer. The light is shifting incrementally each day now — tilting toward a new season. I notice especially in those transitory, crepuscular moments of dawn and dusk. The light is moving to…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, Author Of 'When Mountain Lions are Neighbors'
This week on Cultivating Place, life in the garden gets a little more wild when we speak with Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, California director of the National Wildlife Federation. Beth is the author of the …
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Stefani Bittner And The Beautiful Edible Garden And Its Multilayered Harvest
Sometimes when you use the word garden – people immediately conjure up images of the ornamental perennial border. Other people, however, conjure up colorful visions of the summer vegetable garden – b…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Humble Roots Nursery
Kristin Currin is owner and founder with her husband Drew Merritt of Humble Roots Native Plant Nursery in Mosier, Oregon.
Situated at the interface between temperate rain forest, the Great Basin and…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Debra Prinzing And The Slow Flowers Movement
Cultivating Place this week welcomes Debra Prinzing, the producer of slowflowers.com, the online directory to American flower farms, and florists, shops and studios who source domestic and local flow…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Marta McDowell, "All The Presidents' Gardens"
In this election year, and with the Independence Day holiday just past, we have something of a patriotic garden theme going. This week, we’re joined by Marta McDowell, a gardener, historian and write…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Gardens For Heroes
Are you a person who takes refuge in the natural world or your home garden? If so, then you appreciate the many benefits of these for regrouping from life’s stresses, large and small. As we look to t…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
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